A collection of twenty various vintage books. Please see details of their condition below. The books included are:

1) The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope published in 1944 by Arrowsmith. It has 190 pages and comes with its dust jacket. The jacket has some tears to the edges. There is a name on the inside front cover. Some of the pages are a different shade of colour to the others due to printing under War Economy Standards.

2) Rupert of Hentzau (The Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda) by Anthony Hope published in 1944 by Arrowsmith. It has 224 pages and comes with its dust jacket. The jacket has some tears to the edges. There is a name on the inside front cover. Some of the pages are a different shade of colour to the others due to printing under War Economy Standards.

3) Mastro-Don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga, translated by D.H. Lawrence and published in 1928 by Jonathan Cape as part of their Travellers' Library. It has 454 pages. The cover has some age related marks. The pages have some minor foxing and bends.

4) Platos Republic, translated with an introduction by A.D. Lindsay, published in 1969 by Everyman's Library.  It has 325 pages. The cover has some wear and a small hole in the fabric covering the spine. The pages are in a good condition with a few marks.

5) A Book of Classical Stories edited by A. J. Merson, published in 1930 by George G. Harrap as part of their Junior Modern English Series of books. It has 220 pages. The cover has some marks. There is a name on the first blank page. The pages have some age related marks to the edges.

6) The Wisdom of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1921 by Cassell and Company, Ltd. It has 243 pages. The cover has a vertical bend (shown in the picture of the inside cover with a name and date of April 1924). The pages have yellowed with age and have wrinkled. The previous owner has made some notes in pencil against the text on the last few pages.

7) Everyman's Library - Fiction -  Shorter Novels - Jacobean and Restoration - Ornatus & Artesia - Oroonoko- Isle of Pines- Incognita, published in 1949 by J.M. Dent and Sons. It has 303 pages. The cover has a few marks. A previous owner has written notes in pencil on one of the title pages. The pages are in a good condition.

8) Everyman's Library - History - Holinshed's Chronicle As Used in Shakespeare's Plays, published in 1940 by J.M. Dent and Sons. It has 233 pages. The cover has some age related marks. The front cover endpaper is missing. The pages are in a good condition.

9) Everyman's Library- Travel and Topography - The Bible In Spain by George Borrow, published in 1926 by J.M. Dent and Sons. It has 510 pages. The cover has some wear to the edges. There is a name on the inside front cover. The pages are in a good condition.

10) Everyman's Library - History - Greece Under The Romans, published by J.M.Dent and Co. It has 469 pages. The cover has wear to the back edge of the spine where it is coming away slightly. The pages have some age related marks to the edges.

11) Comedies by William Shakespeare, edited by Peter Alexander, published in 1961 by Collins. It has a soft back cover with 768 pages. The cover has some bends to the tips of the corners. There is an inscription on the first blank page. The pages are in a good condition.

12) The Trumpet-Major and Robert His Brother - A Tale by Thomas Hardy, published in 1925 by Macmillan and Co. It has a leather cover with a gilt edge to the pages at the top and attached fabric bookmark. The cover has some age related marks. The pages have a few bends.

13) Satires of Circumstance Lyrics and Reveries by Thomas Hardy, published in 1928 by Macmillan and Co. It has a leather cover with a gilt edge to the pages at the top and attached fabric bookmark. The cover has a few marks. The pages are in a good condition with minor foxing.

14) Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. It has a softback cover with 577 pages. There is a slight bend to the covering over the spine and some marks on the inside front cover. The pages are in a good condition.

15) Tales From The Arabian Nights, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons. It has 256 pages with illustrations by W. Heath Robinson and others. The cover has wear to the edges. The pages are in a good condition.

16 Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes and An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons. It has 150 pages with the top edge coloured blue. The cover has a few age related marks. The pages are in a good condition.

17) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, done into English by Edward Fitzgerald and published by Collins. It has 126 pages with illustrations by Marjorie Anderson. The soft back cover has some fading to the spine. The pages are in a good condition.

18) Geoffrey Chaucer's The Prologue To The Book Of The Tales of Canterbury, The Knights Tale, The Nun's Priest's Tale, edited with notes and glossary by Andrew Ingraham and published in 1925 by The Macmillan Company. It has 337 pages. The cover has age related marks and a small hole in the fabric on the front. The pages are in a good condition with a few bends to the pages.

19) The Ballard of Reading Gaol and other Poems by Oscar Wilde, published by Heron Books. It is a small size book with 111 pages and a frontispiece illustration of the author. The cover has minor wear. The pages are in a good condition.

20) Gems From Tennyson, published around 1912 by Collins Clear Type Press. It is a small, pocket size book with a suede cover and colour illustrations. The cover has wear, fading and age related marks. There is an inscription on one of the first blank pages. The pages are in a good condition.

Apologies for the cost of postage as the books have a heavy postal weight.

Thank you for looking.